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updated Sat. March 17, 2018

That law has allowed more than 11,000 minors to get married in the last 17 years, the KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting found. Kentucky has one of the highest rates of childmarriage in the country. Other states have tried to pass similar laws in recent years, with mixed results. Virginia and TexasÃÂ ...

White nationalist leader Matthew Heimbach was arrested Tuesday for felony domestic battery in southern Indiana, raising questions about his organization's future and his role in the so-called "alt-right" movement -- and potentially violating his probation in Kentucky. Police records obtained by the SouthernÃÂ ...

Kice first discussed her 32-year-old son's case in a New EnglandCenter for Investigative Reporting investigation published in The Boston Globe in May that showed that at least 14 men and women committed suicide in the Bristol County House of Correction between 2006 and 2016. Two more men died byÃÂ ...

The Center for Investigative Reporting published a story recounting some of the harsh conditions the rehab clients faced. According to interviews, participants in the program lived in fear of being returned to drug court or prison. Supporters say the agreement offered repeat drug court offenders with addictionÃÂ ...

The so-called "Child Bride" bill passed the Kentucky state Senate 34-3. It will now move onto the House. The bill makes 18 the legal age of marriage in Kentucky. Judges would be able to grant exceptions to 17-year-old petitioners in certain circumstances, but the bill prohibits marriage for anyone younger.

A summer employee reported an alleged rape while working for Louisville Metro Housing Authority in summer 2017. Note: This story contains a description of an alleged sexual assault. Last July, a 21-year-old woman working for the summer at the Louisville Metro Housing Authority got on the elevator withÃÂ ...

A bill that would raise the minimum age of marriage in Kentucky will be considered by the state Senate after it passed the Judiciary Committee with a unanimous vote Tuesday morning. The bill would make 18 the legal age of marriage in Kentucky. Judges could grant some exceptions for 17-year-olds toÃÂ ...

But every public agency does not interpret these laws the same way -- at least, that's what the varied responses to KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting requests for documents tied to sexual harassment complaints appear to show. In an effort to gauge the frequency and severity of workplace sexualÃÂ ...

Through open records requests, court documents and interviews, the KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting has assembled the most comprehensive look so far at sexual harassment allegations filed by state employees since 2012. (Two of the largest departments -- the Department of Corrections andÃÂ ...

The rule change followed a 2016 investigation from the KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting that found the state was operating probation services in only 18 counties due to budget constraints. In the rest, private companies operated with almost no state oversight, even as they often failed to complyÃÂ ...

Johnson made his announcement following the Center for Investigative Reporting's Reveal's report on nationwide racial disparities in home loans copublished by WHYY on Thursday with additional reporting by PlanPhilly. "Yesterday, I was disturbed to learn that Philadelphia's home loan market has someÃÂ ...

This modern-day redlining persisted in 61 metro areas even when controlling for applicants' income, loan amount and neighborhood, according to a mountain of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. The yearlong analysis, based on 31ÃÂ ...

EMERYVILLE, Calif. (March 12, 2018) - Today, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a national nonprofit newsroom in the San Francisco Bay Area, announced applications are open for its third cohort of Reveal Investigative Fellows. The Reveal Investigative Fellowship helps strengthen aÃÂ ...

In a single day last month, "angel investors" committed to invest $7.5 million in Kentucky small businesses -- and snatched up $3 million in tax breaks. Kentucky's angel investor tax incentive program is among the nation's most generous, and it has grown so rapidly that legislators are consideringÃÂ ...

The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is teaming up with Illinois Humanities and C-U CitizenAccess for a panel discussion about the herbicide dicamba. According to agriculture researchers, more than 3.6 million acres of soybeans were damaged by the weed killer during the last growing season.

The allegations against Johnson were first reported by the KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting. Their story was backed up by on-the-record comments from the victim, plus pages of documents from a police investigation that was closed under questionable circumstances. The story prompted theÃÂ ...

A national analysis by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting found Latinos accounted for nearly half of the population in the Los Angeles area in 2015-2016, yet applied for just 18 percent of conventional loan applications. In the Central Valley city of Fresno, Latinos made up more than half ofÃÂ ...

LANSING -- Black applicants for a conventional home mortgage in the Lansing-East Lansing area are about three times more likely than white applicants to be denied loans, according to a recent investigation by The Center for Investigative Reporting. The CIR investigation found modern-day redlining, theÃÂ ...

This modern-day redlining persisted in 61 metro areas even when controlling for applicants' income, loan amount and neighborhood, according to a mountain of Home mortgage Disclosure Act records analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. The yearlong analysis, based on 31ÃÂ ...

A former so-called massage parlor shut down by Framingham city officials as part of an investigation into human trafficking. police say it was a site for prostitution. It operated directly across the road from Framingham city hall and police headquarters. Credit: Meredith Nierman/WGBH News. facebookÃÂ ...

Tangela Mahone is a tall, confident woman. But when she unzips a small black pouch and slides the contents onto the table, she seems to shrink into herself a little, humiliation and fear resurfacing with each artifact. Sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with her adult daughter at the downtown branch of theÃÂ ...

WGBH News and the New EnglandCenter for Investigative Reporting found significant numbers of women -- undocumented and usually broke -- are likely working in facilities from Cape Cod to Western Massachusetts. Often the women working behind the doors of these establishments are living there asÃÂ ...

Our latest Next Louisville story started with a question: how problematic is trash and litter in Louisville's neighborhoods, and is it worse in areas with higher rates of poverty? We answered that question by combining data already publicly available with open records requests -- and we discovered anÃÂ ...

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said Wednesday that he will unveil a new city-wide cleanliness initiative this spring that he hopes will address disparities in litter problems. In an interview Wednesday, Fischer said an assessment is already underway using city data, social media and community input toÃÂ ...

Looking at records from the cash-strapped< cities of Worcester, Lowell, New Bedford, Pittsfield and Quincy, the New EnglandCenter for Investigative Reporting found these cities sold off more than 1,300 tax liens to investors, recovering nearly $10 million over the last 5 years. As dozens of cities and townsÃÂ ...

Jacob Ryan joined the KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting in December 2017. For three years prior, he worked as a WFPL News reporter. Ryan is originally from Eddyville, Kentucky. Bullitt County ÃÂ· Bullitt County Prepares For A Special election. By Jacob Ryan | January 19, 2018. This year, the county will run threeÃÂ ...

Not included in that list is a controversial and costly program he also plans to phase out: the film tax incentive program that has promised more than $148 million in incentives to filmmakers. In a press release sent during Bevin's speech, the governor said his budget closes the film subsidies to any newÃÂ ...

The New EnglandCenter for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit news organization -- and as such it relies on the financial support of people who believe in our mission: To expose injustice and hold the powerful accountable. NECIR pursues this mission by both producing and teaching in-depth-ÃÂ ...

children in Louisville's juvenile jail don't have enough teachers, doctors or mental health professionals, a review of the facility found. The Center for children's Law and Policy conducted a study of conditions at the Louisville Metro Youth Detention Center last fall. The facility houses youth who have beenÃÂ ...

Three mentally ill inmates sued the Bristol County Sheriff's Office for mistreatment, citing an investigation by the New EnglandCenter for Investigative Reporting that found its suicide rate was double that of other county jails in Massachusetts and triple of the national rate. The complaint comes eight monthsÃÂ ...

Miles' accuser told the KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting that she "just could not emotionally go on with the case anymore." She referred additional questions to her attorney. KyCIR typically does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault. Nashville attorney John Day, who is representing theÃÂ ...

Jefferson County public schools The state's largest school district has spent the last few years dealing with a wave of employee misconduct that left broken legs, distressed students and costly lawsuits in its wake. The problem goes beyond a few bad teachers. The system that is supposed to investigate andÃÂ ...

Animal shelters in disarray. Hypocrisy in immigration enforcement policy. White nationalism on the rise. A "Long Con" and an escaped Conn. It's been a busy year at the KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting. Here are some of our biggest investigations of 2017.

That's why KyCIR is bringing back Operation Spread Love, Not Hate. We invite you to flip the script on some well-known quotes from some of Kentucky's most prominent politicians. Some are contentious; some are pleasant political platitudes. But none of them are spreading love. That's where you come in.

The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is teaming up with Illinois Humanities and C-U CitizenAccess for a panel discussion about the herbicide dicamba. According to agriculture researchers, more than 3.6 million acres of soybeans were damaged by the weed killer during the last growing season.

From her porch, she can see just beyond the curb, where a needle lies next to a discarded paper cup. The needle's bright orange cap is an unmistakable, yet unremarkable, sight in the Taylor Berry neighborhood, just west of Churchill Downs. Sharon Cissell (right) stands on her porch with Mandy CissellÃÂ ...

Rubmaps.com is an online website dedicated to reviews of illicit massage parlors, some of which have been linked to sex trafficking. facebook; twitter; Print; email; Reddit. Websites offer content written by customers of erotic massage parlors, making it easy to find sex traffickers. But prosecution is complex.

"If the report by the [Kentucky] Center for Investigative Reporting is true, then I am disappointed in that investigation." Four other Republican lawmakers have also been accused of sexual harassment. Former House Speaker Jeff Hoover, Rep. Brian Linder of Dry Ridge, Rep. Jim Decesare of Bowling GreenÃÂ ...

But he was mostly out of the spotlight until Monday, when the KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting published an account from a woman saying ... Michael Skoler, president of Louisville Public Media, which owns the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, said everyone at the organization isÃÂ ...

NPR neither investigated the story nor aired or published it, but the accusations of sexual assault were part of an unflattering profile of Johnson published Monday by Louisville Public Media's KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting (KyCIR). In a reference to Johnson's penchant for calling himself "popeÃÂ ...

This Aug. 1, 2011, photo provided by the Texaspeace Officers shows the vehicle at the scene of the rural West Texas crash that killed Kerrybeth Hall and Matthew Smith. police listed a Goodyear Wrangler SilentArmor tire - among more than 40,000 tires the company later recalled - as a cause of the crash.

Johnson was a preacher from Mt. Washington in Bullitt County. He shot himself on a bridge over the Salt River, according to WDRB. Johnson posted a suicide note on facebook Wednesday evening calling the accusations false and telling conservatives to "take a stand." "AMERICA will not survive this typeÃÂ ...

He implied that the story by the KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting was motivated by funding sources to NPR and that the allegations were about politics. ... "The Pope's Long Con" was published Monday by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, which is part of WFPL. WFPL is an NPRÃÂ ...

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer wants an internal review of his police department's handling of a years-old molestation investigation into a local preacher and state lawmaker. The sexual abuse allegations were revealed Monday by the KentuckyCenter for Investigative Reporting in "The Pope's Long Con," aÃÂ ...

The news team shares a behind-the-scenes perspective on a story that captured the attention of top officials at the White House, and spurred security changes across dozens of schools. In the San Francisco Bay Area, children are landing criminal records before they even hit puberty. A nearly two-year longÃÂ ...